Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDan Senor and Saul Singer, "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
Episode 107
How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and eco…
2 years, 5 months ago
Saran Stewart et al., "Each One Teach One: Parental Involvement and Family Engagement in Jamaica's Education System" (U West Indies Press, 2022)
Episode 222
Each One Teach One: Parental Involvement and Family Engagement in Jamaica’s Education System (University of the West Indies Press, 2022) is a collect…
2 years, 5 months ago
Leontina Hormel, "Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 326
In rural northern Idaho in the winter of 2013-2014, Syringa Mobile Home Park’s water system was contaminated by sewage, resulting in residents’ water…
2 years, 5 months ago
Daniel Shea and Nicholas F. Jacobs, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 689
The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ba…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sarah E. Stoller, "Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 105
Sarah E. Stoller, Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain (MIT Press, 2023) is the first historical examinatio…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 424
Are jobs fair? In The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay after College (U Chicago Press, 2023), Jessi Streib, an associate Professor of So…
2 years, 5 months ago
Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 688
Political Scientist Boris Heersink’s new book guides the reader through over a century of politics and national parties in the United States. Heersin…
2 years, 5 months ago
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine et al., "When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Episode 70
How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Future of the Rural-Urban Divide: A Discussion with Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea
Episode 87
The town/countryside split has always been a feature of democratic Western politics and has impacted party choice. The advent of rust belts may have …
2 years, 5 months ago
Lidia Katia C. Manzo, "Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown" (Springer, 2023)
Episode 326
Lidia Katia C. Manzo's book Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown (Springer, 2023) examines lived experiences of making, inhabit…
2 years, 5 months ago